Cùran's life - Entries tagged gamesEntries tagged gameshttp://www.carbon-project.org/
Humble Indie Bundle #4 rocks!http://www.carbon-project.org/Humble_Indie_Bundle__4_rocks_.html
http://www.carbon-project.org/Humble_Indie_Bundle__4_rocks_.htmlFri, 16 Dec 2011 13:21:53 +0000<p>Yesterday I bought my copy of the <a href="http://www.humblebundle.com/"
title="The Humble Indie Bundle homepage">Humble Indie Bundle #4</a>. And while
the donation part is a good thing, I directed most of my payment to the
developers of the games to allow them to make more games, which run natively on
Linux.</p>
<p>I haven't played much yet (no time) and just tried out the game for which the
Torrent finished first (Bit.Trip.Runner). The nice thing about that game is, it is
available as a Debian package, the not-so-nice thing about said package is, that
it installs stuff in places where it shouldn't and has tons of wrong file
properties like ownership of the files... The Depends line is also more or less
pointless, as it just lists the needed packages, but not the minimal versions.
Hopefully these things will be fixed in a future package version.</p>
<p>Apart from that, the game in its retro look is sort of addictive. Yes, it's
&quot;just&quot; simple Jump'n'Run, but it is a lot of fun to play. Partly
because you &quot;play&quot; a simple melody, when you clear obstacles and collect
the gold and other goodies.</p>
<p>Anyway, long story short, if you want a few nice <acronym
title="Digital Restriction Management">DRM</acronym>-free games running natively
on Linux (in my case with the <a href="http://mesa3d.org/"
title="Mesa3D project page">Mesa3D</a> drivers for my Radeon), I can recommend
this bundle. And maybe the games get open-sourced in the future as has been
done <a href="http://h-online.com/-998886"
title="The H: Four indie games to go open source">previously</a>. None of these
games are so called AAA titles, but that doesn't mean they can't provide some
fun hours. And to top it off you don't need Wine or something else to run them
on your Linux system.</p>
Miscellaneous stuff #1http://www.carbon-project.org/Miscellaneous_stuff__1.html
http://www.carbon-project.org/Miscellaneous_stuff__1.htmlSun, 18 Dec 2011 10:37:44 +0000<p>This year is in its last throes and a few things, that don't really warrant
their own blog post, have piled up here. To get them out of the door before
2012 starts, I'd like to go over them in the next few lines.</p>
<p>First: there seem to be a group of rather cheap people who want to have
the <a href="http://humblebundle.com/" title="The Humble Indie Bundle">Humble
Indie Bundle</a> #4, but don't like to give at least 0.01 USD. Really guys,
you seem to have enough money for a fast-enough computer and a (broadband)
internet connection (otherwise downloading the circa 2.8 GB of games won't be a
lot of fun), but you don't have the 0.01 USD to spare? If you don't like
closed-source games (a sentiment I can truly understand, in fact, that was
something I really pondered before buying) then just don't play them. But
searching for a torrent for the HIB#4 while it is still being sold to just avoid
paying the minimal fee, I can't understand. Now, some might wonder how I know
this. The easy answer is, I <a href="/Humble_Indie_Bundle__4_rocks_.html"
title="Cùran's Life: Humble Indie Bundle #4 rocks!">blogged about buying the
HIB#4</a> and mentioned, that I downloaded the games through a torrent (you can
choose between direct downloads and torrents on your &quot;login page&quot;) and
<em>a lot</em> of people started hitting the blog entry with a referrer from a
search engine, showing they'd searched for &quot;humble indie bundle 4
torrent&quot;. Please make a decision: don't play the games or if you wish
to, then pay something. The people behind those games make it easy and, in
comparison to many other game studios, a fair offer. That should be worth
something.</p>
<p>For those of you who loved <a href="/New_flatmate__Josephine.html"
title="Cùran's Life: New flatmate: Josephine">Josephine</a>, there is a new
<a href="http://fav.me/d4i8yw3"
title="On the devil's back by Lykorias aka An-U">awesome piece of art</a>, <a
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"
title="CC BY-NC-ND 3.0">Creative Commons licensed</a>, by <a
hreflang="de" title="An-U's homepage" href="http://namida-x.eu/">An-U</a>
(German homepage). The title (and the drawing) are derived from the equally
awesome <a href="http://www.katzenjammer.no/"
title="Katzenjammer's homepage">Katzenjammer</a> song &quot;<a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B44wjt_66k0"
title="Katzenjammer live: On the Devil's Back">On the Devil's Back</a>&quot; (in
case you're still looking for a present, you might want to consider one of their
<acronym title="Compact Disc">CD</acronym>s or a ticket to their next concert
near you).</p>
<p>Then, I wanted to thank all those people, who donated something over the
course of 2011! Thanks a lot, especially for showing me, that you liked my
services/work enough to even consider a donation! It means a lot to me, to
know this.</p>
<p>At year's end everybody is doing statistics and while I won't bore you with
long in-depth analysis, I thought I throw out, what the top posts/things where
(so far). Maybe you find yourself represented in there or maybe you find
something new. In no particular order:</p>
<ul>
<li>My unofficial <a href="http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/"
title="wine-unstable packages on dev.carbon-project.org"><tt>wine-unstable</tt>
packages</a> generated a lot of traffic and back links.</li>
<li>The <a href="/tags/cheat-sheet/" title="Tips from the local geek">mini-tips
series</a> had many hits.</li>
<li>My two posts (<a href="/Untangling_the_Linux_graphics_stack.html"
title="Cùran's Life: Untangling the Linux graphics stack">1</a>, <a
href="/What_wasn_t_said_about_the_Linux_graphics_stack.html"
title="Cùran's Life: What wasn't said about the Linux graphics stack">2</a>)
about the Linux graphics stack garnered a lot of attention.</li>
<li><a href="/Removal_of_sun_java6_and_ElsterOnline.html"
title="Cùran's Life: Removal of sun-java6 and ElsterOnline">The note about
removing Sun's Java implementation</a> was the first post to be mentioned in a
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/2011/msg00047.html"
title="Debian Project News, December 2011">Debian Project News issue</a>.</li>
<li>Right after my <tt>wine-unstable</tt> packages, my <a
href="/Google_recommends_using_OpenStreetMaps_OpenLayers.html"
title="Cùran's Life: Google recommends using OpenStreetMaps/OpenLayers">post
about <acronym title="OpenStreetMap">OSM</acronym> and OpenLayers</a> generated
the most e-mails.</li>
<li>The <a title="YTPlaylistFetcher"
href="http://gitweb.carbon-project.org/?p=ytplaylistfetcher.git;a=summary">YouTube
playlist fetcher</a> is also pretty popular, though the <a
href="http://dev.carbon-project.org/greasemonkey/"
title="Greasemonkey scripts on dev.carbon-project.org">Greasemonkey script
collection</a> has been picking up speed recently.</li>
</ul>
<p>I hope your 2011 was a good year and I wish you all the best for 2012! I'm
pretty sure Debian will continue to grow, but there is also a lot of work ahead,
maybe <a href="http://www.debian.org/intro/help" title="Help Debian!">you can
join the effort</a> and make Debian that much more awesome!</p>